A Raspberry Pi is a great choice for hosting power user smart home tools. See how to quickly get a cheap headless server up and running for your first project.

Adding Z-Wave to your smart home can provide greater flexibility and reliability, but which controller is right for you?

SwitchBot make a range of useful niche smart home products, but integration with platforms other than Alexa and Google has been pretty limited. The SwitchBot Hub 2 promises to help by supporting Matter, but does it work?

Band steering is a term thrown around a lot when it comes to Wi-Fi networks, but there is a lot of misunderstanding about it. What does it actually do?

Whether you’re working from home or running a lot of IoT gadgets VLANs provide a way to exercise more control over your home network’s security.

When it comes to Wi-Fi there is a lot of jargon thrown about. 2.5GHz or 5Ghz? Why not both? Learn what a dual band router is, how it works, and why it’s important for your home network.

You don’t always need WiFi in your router. Whether you want control, security, or performance, here are the top options for small wired routers.

When looking for a product, it’s common to look at overall brand quality as a way of filtering down your choices. It’s not always clear cut though. Here we look at router makers Linksys and Netgear and compare some of their newest offerings.

While there are some unofficial ways to get Z-Wave devices into HomeKit, Thinka has done it right with this native bridge device.

When looking at top quality consumer mesh routers supporting Wifi 6, eero and Netgear have strong contenders. We look at what’s on offer, and how they compare.

Smart devices are well known potential attack vectors when they are connected to the internet, but Apple has a HomeKit feature that gives you easy control over those devices to stop them being used against you.

If you have appliances with RF remotes, like ceiling fans, and you want to add them to your smart home Bond provides a much easier way to do so than fitting WiFi controllers to them.

Google proves that raw speed isn’t everything when it comes to home WiFi. Intelligent optimization gets the most out of your internet while guaranteeing a magically smooth WiFi experience.

A UK based survey of home router owners provides an eye-watering view of general user ignorance and lack of awareness of basic security requirements. 

As the number of connected devices in homes grow, and the paradigm of home computing moves to a more mobile base, Wifi connectivity has become increasingly important to a lot of people. Let's take a look a three of the better options available.